The great thing about LLMs being more or less commoditized is switching is so easy.
I use Claude Code via the VS Code extension. When I got a couple of 500 errors just now I simply copy pasted my last instructions into Codex and kept going.
It's pretty rare that switching costs are THAT low in technology!
shermantanktop 10 hours ago [-]
It’s not a moat, it’s a tiny groove on the sidewalk.
I’ve experienced the same. Even guide markdown files that work well for one model or vendor will work reasonably well for the other.
paxys 10 hours ago [-]
Which is exactly why these companies are now all focused on building products rather than (or alongside) improving their base models. Claude Code, Cowork, Gemini CLI/Antigravity, Codex - all proprietary and don't allow model swapping (or do with heavy restrictions). As models get more and more commoditized the idea is to enforce lock-in at the app level instead.
alecco 10 hours ago [-]
FWIW, OpenAI Codex is open source and they help other open source projects like OpenCode to integrate their accounts (not just expensive API), unlike Anthropic who blocked it last month and force people to use their closed source CLI.
gundmc 10 hours ago [-]
Gemini CLI is open source too, though I think the consensus is it's a distant third behind Claude Code and Codex
_aavaa_ 10 hours ago [-]
The classic commoditize your complements.
bloppe 10 hours ago [-]
I only integrate with models via MCP. I highly encourage everybody to do the same to preserve the commodity status
LetsGetTechnicl 10 hours ago [-]
Using "low cost" and LLM's in the same sentence is kind of funny to me.
bgirard 9 hours ago [-]
The switching cost is so low that I find it's easier and better value to have two $20/mo subscription from different providers than a $200/mo subscription with the frontier model of the month. Reliability and model diversity are a bonus.
harrisi 9 hours ago [-]
I genuinely don't know how any of these companies can make extreme profit for this reason. If a company makes a significantly better model, shouldn't it be able to explain how it's better to any competitor?
Google succeeded because it understood the web better than its competitors. I don't see how any of the players in this space could be so much better that they could take over the market. It seems like these companies will create commodities, which can be profitable, but also incredibly risky for early investors and don't make the profits that would be necessary to justify the evaluations of today.
crazygringo 9 hours ago [-]
> If a company makes a significantly better model, shouldn't it be able to explain how it's better to any competitor?
No. Not if it's not trained on any materials that reveal the secret sauce on why it's better.
LLM's don't possess introspection into their own training process or architecture.
harrisi 9 hours ago [-]
That's my point. Anything that could exist that's significantly "better" would be able to share more about its creation. And anything that could be significantly better would have to be capable of "understanding" things it wasn't trained on.
crazygringo 8 hours ago [-]
That's not true. There are a million ways to be "significantly better" that don't involve knowledge about the model's creation. It can be 10x or 100x or 1000x more accurate at coding, for example, without knowing a single thing more about its own internal training methodology.
skydhash 10 hours ago [-]
> It's pretty rare that switching costs are THAT low in technology!
Look harder. Swapping usb devices (mouse,…) takes even less time. Switching wifi is also easy. Switching browser works the same. I can equally use vim/emacs/vscode/sublime/… for programming.
pchristensen 10 hours ago [-]
Switching between vim <-> emacs <-> IDEs is way harder than swapping a USB (unless you already know how to use them).
ahmadyan 10 hours ago [-]
good point, they are standards, by definition society forced vendors to behave and play nice together. LLMs are not standards yet, and it is just pure bliss that english works fine across different LLMs for now.
Some labs are trying to push their own format and stop it. Specially around reasoning traces, e.g. codex removing reasoning traces between calls and gemini requiring reasoning history. So don't take this for granted.
crazygringo 9 hours ago [-]
I dunno. Text is a pretty good de facto standard. And they work in lots of languages, not just English.
amelius 10 hours ago [-]
You make it sound like lock-in doesn't exist. But your examples are cherry picked. And they're all standards anyway, their _purpose_ was for easy switching between implementations.
NicuCalcea 10 hours ago [-]
Most people only have one mouse or Wi-Fi network. If my Wi-Fi goes down, my only other option is to use a mobile hotspot, which is inferior in almost every way.
oneeyedpigeon 9 hours ago [-]
> Most people only have one mouse
Tell me you're not a Mac user without telling me you're not a Mac user...
NicuCalcea 8 hours ago [-]
Thankfully, not a Mac user, or even a wireless mouse user.
crazygringo 9 hours ago [-]
Huh?
oneeyedpigeon 9 hours ago [-]
The default Apple mouse needs a backup because it still cannot be charged and used at the same time.
whatever1 10 hours ago [-]
I mean sublime died overnight when vscode showed up.
falloutx 9 hours ago [-]
on some agents you just switch the model and carry on.
benterix 8 hours ago [-]
Except Kimi Agent via website is hard to replace - I tried the same task in Claude Code, Codex, and Kimi Agent - the results for office tasks are incomparable. The versions from Anthropic and OpenAI are far behind.
hk__2 11 hours ago [-]
Their GitHub issues are wild; random people are posting the same useless "bug reports" over and over multiple times per minute.
Gives you a good window into a vibe coder's mentality. They do not care about anything except what they want to get done. If something is in the way, they will just try to brute force it until it works, not giving a duck if they are being an inconvenience to others. They're not aware of existing guidelines/conventions/social norms and they couldn't care less.
stevenpetryk 10 hours ago [-]
This sounds like a case of a bias called availability heuristic. It'd be worth remembering that you often don't notice people who are polite and normal nearly as much as people who are rude and obnoxious.
egeozcan 10 hours ago [-]
Could it be that you're creating a stereotype in your head and getting angry about it?
People say these things against any group they dislike. It's so much that these days it feels like most of the social groups are defined by outsiders with the things they dislike about them.
phito 10 hours ago [-]
Well not really, vibe coding is literally brute forcing things until it works, not caring about the details of it.
charcircuit 9 hours ago [-]
So manual programming. Humans don't always get everything perfect the first try either.
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Forgeties79 10 hours ago [-]
I am starting to get concerned about how much “move fast break things” has basically become the average person’s mantra in the US. Or at least it feels that way.
embedding-shape 10 hours ago [-]
You're about a decade+ late to the party, this isn't some movement that happened overnight, it's a slow cultural shift that been happening for quite some time already. Quality and stability used to be valued, judging by what most people and companies put out today, they seem to be focusing on quantity and "seeing what sticks" today instead.
Forgeties79 10 hours ago [-]
I’m not saying it’s a sudden/brand new thing, I think I’m just really seeing the results of the past decade clearly and frequently. LLM usage philosophies really highlight it.
embedding-shape 7 hours ago [-]
> I’m not saying it’s a sudden/brand new thing
I was more referencing the whole "I'm starting to worry" while plenty of people been cautiously observing from the side-lines all the trouble "move fast, break things" brought forward, many of them speaking up at the time too.
It's been pretty evident for quite some time, even back in 2016 Facebook was used by the military to incite genocide in Myanmar, yet people were still not really picking up the clues... That's a whole decade ago, times were different, yet things seems the same, that's fucking depressing.
bandrami 4 hours ago [-]
Particularly since that mantra started around 2005 or so, which was exactly when Silicon Valley stopped creating companies that could run at a profit without a constant investor firehose.
qbxk 10 hours ago [-]
if history doesn't repeat, but it rhymes
does vibe coding rhyme with eternal september?
falloutx 9 hours ago [-]
IF anything, this is good news for Anthropic, they can now bury every open source project with useless isssues and PRs
soulofmischief 10 hours ago [-]
Are these superpredator vibe coders in the room with us right now?
monsieurbanana 11 hours ago [-]
Wow are these submitted automatically by claude code? I'm not comfortable with the level of details they have (user's anthropic email, full path of the project they were working on, stack traces...)
tobyjsullivan 10 hours ago [-]
Scanning a few. Some are definitely written by AI but most seem genuinely human (or at least, not claude).
Anecdata: I read five and only found one was AI. Your sampling may vary.
prodigycorp 10 hours ago [-]
I consider revealing my file structure and file paths to be PII so naturally seeing people's comfort with putting all that up there makes me queasy.
xnorswap 10 hours ago [-]
I think claude code has a /bug command which auto-fills those details in a github report.
embedding-shape 10 hours ago [-]
Definitively some automation involved, no way the typical user of Claude Code (no offense) would by default put so much details into reporting an issue, especially users who don't seem to understand it's Anthropic's backend that is the issue (given the status code) rather than the client/harness.
philipwhiuk 10 hours ago [-]
No, but they are submitted by the sort of people who will use AI to write the GitHub issue details
petters 10 hours ago [-]
How could they be? Claude was down
jscheel 10 hours ago [-]
and every single one of them checked "I have searched existing issues and this hasn't been reported yet"
david422 10 hours ago [-]
A long time ago I was taking flight lessons and I was going through the takeoff checklist. I was going through each item, but my instructor had to remind me that I am not just reading the checklist - I need understand/verify each checklist item before moving on. Always stuck with me.
macintux 10 hours ago [-]
A few times a year I have to remind my co-workers that reading & understanding error messages is a critical part of being in the IT business. I'm not perfect in that regard, but the number of times the error message explaining exactly what's wrong and how to solve it is included in the screenshot they share is a little depressing.
delaminator 9 hours ago [-]
Application Error:
The exception illegal instruction
An attempt was made to execute an illegal instruction.
(0xc000001d) occurred in the application at location.
Click on OK to terminate the program.
kogasa240p 10 hours ago [-]
Some of them don't even have error messages.
ebonnafoux 10 hours ago [-]
It's wild that people check the box
> I have searched existing issues and this hasn't been reported yet
when the first 50 issues are about 500 error.
atonse 11 hours ago [-]
This is the kind of abuse that will cause them to just close GitHub issues.
Or they'll have to put something in the system prompt to handle this special case where it first checks for existing bugs and just upvotes it, rather than creating a new one.
orphea 10 hours ago [-]
I'm not too empathic to Anthropic. They did it to themselves by hyping AI and attracting that kind of people.
And it's not like they have been taking care of issues anyway.
echelon 11 hours ago [-]
The automation of the SWE.
ddmma 11 hours ago [-]
should enable some kind of agent automation
nhubbard 10 hours ago [-]
I've made a feature request there to add another GitHub Actions bot to auto-close issues reporting errors like this when an outage is happening. Would definitely help to cut through the noise.
There has to be some sort of automation making these issues, to many of them are identical but posted by different people.
Also love how many have the “I searched for issues” checked which is clearly a lie.
Does Claude code make issue reports automatically? (And then how exactly would it be doing that if Anthropic was down when the use of LLM in the report is obvious )
LetsGetTechnicl 10 hours ago [-]
That's what happens when people outsource their mental capacity to a machine
cing 10 hours ago [-]
Github issues will be the real social network for AI agents, no humans allowed!
kogasa240p 10 hours ago [-]
Goes to show that nobody reads error messages and it reminds me of this old blogpost:
> A kid knocks on my office door, complaining that he can't login. 'Have you forgotten your password?' I ask, but he insists he hasn't. 'What was the error message?' I ask, and he shrugs his shoulders. I follow him to the IT suite. I watch him type in his user-name and password. A message box opens up, but the kid clicks OK so quickly that I don't have time to read the message. He repeats this process three times, as if the computer will suddenly change its mind and allow him access to the network. On his third attempt I manage to get a glimpse of the message. I reach behind his computer and plug in the Ethernet cable. He can't use a computer.
Couldn't have happened to a better Repo, I needed that chuckle.
falloutx 9 hours ago [-]
Thats exactly what they Anthropic deserves (btw they cant even get Anthropic on github lmao, this must be the biggest company having to run with wrong ID on github)
palcu 10 hours ago [-]
Hey folks, I’m Alex from the reliability team at Anthropic. We’re sorry for the downtime and we’ve posted a mini retrospective on our status page. We’re also be doing a more in depth retrospective in the following days.
If this overly impacts you as an "engineer" beyond "oh thats minorly annoying i'll go do it another way" please do some soul searching.
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shepherdjerred 9 hours ago [-]
I’m sure there are plenty of tools you rely on as an “engineer” as well
ares623 3 hours ago [-]
And none of them demand my retirement funds to continue existence
falloutx 9 hours ago [-]
Code quality increased.
couchdb_ouchdb 9 hours ago [-]
OR just take some time off from the grind to enjoy your life.
embedding-shape 11 hours ago [-]
For folks who have latest version (0.4.1) LM Studio installed, I just noticed they added endpoints for being compatible with Claude Code, maybe this is an excellent moment to play around with local models, if you have the GPU for it. zai-org/glm-4.7-flash (Q4) is supposed to be OK-ish, and should fit within 24GB VRAM. It's not great, but always fun to experiment, and if the API stays down, you have some time to waste :)
jwr 11 hours ago [-]
I find it a bit annoying that the last place where I can learn about an Anthropic outage is the Anthropic Status page.
sjm-lbm 11 hours ago [-]
As best as I can tell, there was less than 10 minutes from the last successful request I made and when the downtime was added to their status page - and I'm not particularly crazy with my usage or anything, the gap could have been less than that.
Honestly, that seems okay to me. Certainly better than what AWS usually does.
what do you mean it's right there. Judging by the Github issues it only took them 10 minutes to add the issue message.
wild_egg 11 hours ago [-]
It took them about 15 minutes to update that page
jMyles 11 hours ago [-]
It appeared there like 5 minutes ago; it was down for at least 20 before that.
That's 20 minutes of millions of people visiting the status page, seeing green, and then spending that time resetting their context, looking at their system and network configs, etc.
It's not a huge deal, but for $200/month it'd be nice if, after the first two-thousand 500s went out (which I imagine is less than 10 seconds), the status page automatically went orange.
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emsign 10 hours ago [-]
Big models are single points of failure. I don't want to rely on those for my business, security, wealth, health and governance.
Why do people have to learn the same lessons over and over again? What makes them forget or blind to the obvious pitfalls?
rowanseymour 10 hours ago [-]
Aren't most developers accessing Anthropic's models via vscode/github? It takes seconds to switch to a different model. Today I'm using Gemini.
kogasa240p 10 hours ago [-]
The entire AI hype was started because Silicon Valley wanted a new SaaS product to keep themselves afloat, notice that LLMs started getting pushed right after Silicon Valley Bank collapsed.
yoavsha1 11 hours ago [-]
Both the CC api and their website -- hopefully related to the rumored Sonnet 5 release
eleventhborn 11 hours ago [-]
That will be one strange way to release a model.
yoavsha1 11 hours ago [-]
I mean, can you expect a vibecoding company to do stuff with 0 downtime? They brought the models down and are now panicking at HQ since there's no one to bring them back up
nicpottier 11 hours ago [-]
This made me laugh only because I imagine there could possibly be some truth to it. This is the world we are in. Maybe they all loaded codex to fix their deploy? ;)
copilot_king 11 hours ago [-]
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kachapopopow 11 hours ago [-]
it is not, sounds like an issue with AWS
8cvor6j844qw_d6 11 hours ago [-]
OpenClaw agents on Anthropic API taking an unscheduled coffee break.
Anthropic might have the best product for coding but good god the experience is awful. Random limits where you _know_ you shouldn’t hit them yet, the jankiness of their client, the service being down semi-frequently. Feels like the whole infra is built on a house of cards and badly struggles 70% of the time.
I think my $20 openai sub gets me more tokens than claude’s $100. I can’t wait until google or openai overtake them.
falloutx 9 hours ago [-]
Because they update it everyday and the team has not heard about something called stability. This is direct result of Move fast and break too many things all at once.
I've had the $20/month account for OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic for months. Anthropic consistently has more downtime and throws more errors than the other two. Claude (on the web) also has a lot of seemingly false positive errors. It will claim an error occurred but then work normally. I genuinely like Claude the best but its performance does not inspire confidence.
Alxc1 9 hours ago [-]
Even when Claude isn't down on status indicator. I get issues with Claude all the time being very slow where it is basically down. I have to kill the request and then restart it. I wonder if it has to do with being on Pro plan. I rarely had this issue when I was on Max
dysoco 11 hours ago [-]
Claude Code seems to be back up
tankenmate 11 hours ago [-]
i just checked; no version 5 models listed in claude code yet
ddmma 11 hours ago [-]
is back online
world2vec 11 hours ago [-]
Their website seems fine to me but CC is throwing API error 500.
-edit- CC is back up on my machine
paxys 10 hours ago [-]
Was getting 500 errors from Claude Code this morning but their status page was green. So frustrating that these pages aren't automated, especially considering there are paying users affected.
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xd1936 11 hours ago [-]
I was trying to set up OpenClaw and broke it. My bad guys.
ralusek 10 hours ago [-]
What’s updog?
magic-amoeba 2 hours ago [-]
I had to scroll way too far for this. Thank you for your service.
ukuina 10 hours ago [-]
Not much, what's up with you?
testycool 10 hours ago [-]
Not much. Anthropic was down. What's up with you?
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VladVladikoff 10 hours ago [-]
We need an updated XKCD comic where they are sword fighting but instead of “compiling” its “Anthropic is down”.
deanc 11 hours ago [-]
Probably everyone refreshing to see if Sonnet5 is out yet :)
bastard_op 5 hours ago [-]
Yeah using Claude-Desktop is broken current, all my mcp tool calls keep failing and retrying, then it'll work for a bit, and stop again. In just retrying in an Opus chat in desktop to make it finish doing what I started it's wasted 35% of my Pro hourly quota.
This is why I stopped paying for Max until they fix this shit.
faefox 10 hours ago [-]
No big deal for people who know how to do their job.
tankenmate 10 hours ago [-]
Unless of course your job is writing an agent that uses an Anthropic model.
Seems like a wider issue. Signal is down too, youtube seems to be struggling. Here we go again...
Jgoauh 11 hours ago [-]
its up !
EngineerUSA 9 hours ago [-]
What does Down mean in this context? I imagine running inference on any server suffices. Just rent AWS since Amazon owns it anyways and keep Claude running.
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peter422 11 hours ago [-]
Fortunately before working hours on the west coast so it shouldn't impact that many people.
hackeman300 11 hours ago [-]
I hear you on the west coast, but two thirds of the population lives east of the Mississippi and is in working hours
esskay 11 hours ago [-]
Ah yes, because only the west coast of a single country are the priority for a globally distributed company.
hk__2 11 hours ago [-]
HN users assuming the US are the only country in the World, episode #53985902582.
atonse 11 hours ago [-]
Only one half of the US :)
Us east coasters here are having a chuckle (what else can we do? we can't get work done while Claude is down... I'll be damned if I have to type in code letter by letter ever again!).
throwup238 11 hours ago [-]
We all have a chuckle when AWS east is down.
gsibble 10 hours ago [-]
Yikes man.
mike-cardwell 11 hours ago [-]
Just a healthy reminder that places outside of the USA exist.
bergheim 10 hours ago [-]
Everybody that uses it knows it is down, what value does this add? No context here either. Posts like these feels so much like a low hanging first-to-post-this for karma grab.
It's like.. Popular service is down, let me post that to hn first! Low effort but can still end up popular.
I dunno. Maybe I'm being overly critical. Thoughts?
To add something to the discussion though: this is a reminder why you should not invest in one tool, claude or otherwise. Also, don't go enhancing one of these agents, ond only one of these agents. beads spent the better part of a medium sized country in energy to create a simple TODO list and got smeared in 10 minutes once claude integrated todos in their client.
zamadatix 10 hours ago [-]
The usual impetus is that the official status pages habitually under report and sharing the status page showing the best information gives a basis to form a place to have discussion about where/how/why it was down. Unfortunately, many seem to take the other interpretation instead and said discussion often ends up being low quality in a self fulfilling loop of reasons.
The second note probably deserves to be a separate comment.
bergheim 10 hours ago [-]
This is a good take. You are right, they rarely do report actual status.
And yes, it probably should have been :)
nerdjon 10 hours ago [-]
Not everyone that interacts with a service is interacting with it directly? How is this a serious question.
A thing called API’s exist and if your users rely on it but your not interacting with it directly yourself, seeing this could save you time to investigate an issue.
Or you are using it yourself and seeing this post confirms it is not just you having an issue and you can move on with your day.
This has nothing to do with it being AI and it being a large service. It is the same with posts about an Azure or AWS.
bergheim 10 hours ago [-]
I wasn't using it. I was just on hn. And yes, it is the same about all of these services of course, which was my point.
Not sure how "nothing to do with being a large service" and then you bring up Azure and AWS matches though, but fair enough.
Now I know you guys care, so fair game.
zenexer 10 hours ago [-]
It’s more about the ensuing discussion.
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emsign 10 hours ago [-]
I don't use it but I'd like to know even if it's just entertainment value. But I can imgine people who intend to use it learn something from it: redundancy must be part of their strategy like you said.
romanovcode 10 hours ago [-]
Completely agree, not to mention it was down for couple of minutes. Who even cares?
thehamkercat 10 hours ago [-]
Everybody who uses anything knows that it's down
So what value does it add saying "X is down" anywhere?
It's just for discussion, you can't just ignore it and not talk about it with anyone if a particular service is down and posts like this are pretty common on hn and i haven't seen anyone complaining, it's you being overly critical, yes
bergheim 10 hours ago [-]
Fair enough!
Rendered at 02:33:53 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) with Vercel.
I use Claude Code via the VS Code extension. When I got a couple of 500 errors just now I simply copy pasted my last instructions into Codex and kept going.
It's pretty rare that switching costs are THAT low in technology!
I’ve experienced the same. Even guide markdown files that work well for one model or vendor will work reasonably well for the other.
Google succeeded because it understood the web better than its competitors. I don't see how any of the players in this space could be so much better that they could take over the market. It seems like these companies will create commodities, which can be profitable, but also incredibly risky for early investors and don't make the profits that would be necessary to justify the evaluations of today.
No. Not if it's not trained on any materials that reveal the secret sauce on why it's better.
LLM's don't possess introspection into their own training process or architecture.
Look harder. Swapping usb devices (mouse,…) takes even less time. Switching wifi is also easy. Switching browser works the same. I can equally use vim/emacs/vscode/sublime/… for programming.
Tell me you're not a Mac user without telling me you're not a Mac user...
https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues
People say these things against any group they dislike. It's so much that these days it feels like most of the social groups are defined by outsiders with the things they dislike about them.
I was more referencing the whole "I'm starting to worry" while plenty of people been cautiously observing from the side-lines all the trouble "move fast, break things" brought forward, many of them speaking up at the time too.
It's been pretty evident for quite some time, even back in 2016 Facebook was used by the military to incite genocide in Myanmar, yet people were still not really picking up the clues... That's a whole decade ago, times were different, yet things seems the same, that's fucking depressing.
does vibe coding rhyme with eternal september?
Anecdata: I read five and only found one was AI. Your sampling may vary.
The exception illegal instruction
An attempt was made to execute an illegal instruction.
(0xc000001d) occurred in the application at location.
Click on OK to terminate the program.
> I have searched existing issues and this hasn't been reported yet
when the first 50 issues are about 500 error.
Or they'll have to put something in the system prompt to handle this special case where it first checks for existing bugs and just upvotes it, rather than creating a new one.
And it's not like they have been taking care of issues anyway.
https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/22848
Also love how many have the “I searched for issues” checked which is clearly a lie.
Does Claude code make issue reports automatically? (And then how exactly would it be doing that if Anthropic was down when the use of LLM in the report is obvious )
> A kid knocks on my office door, complaining that he can't login. 'Have you forgotten your password?' I ask, but he insists he hasn't. 'What was the error message?' I ask, and he shrugs his shoulders. I follow him to the IT suite. I watch him type in his user-name and password. A message box opens up, but the kid clicks OK so quickly that I don't have time to read the message. He repeats this process three times, as if the computer will suddenly change its mind and allow him access to the network. On his third attempt I manage to get a glimpse of the message. I reach behind his computer and plug in the Ethernet cable. He can't use a computer.
http://coding2learn.org/blog/2013/07/29/kids-cant-use-comput...
https://status.claude.com/incidents/pr6yx3bfr172
Honestly, that seems okay to me. Certainly better than what AWS usually does.
what do you mean it's right there. Judging by the Github issues it only took them 10 minutes to add the issue message.
That's 20 minutes of millions of people visiting the status page, seeing green, and then spending that time resetting their context, looking at their system and network configs, etc.
It's not a huge deal, but for $200/month it'd be nice if, after the first two-thousand 500s went out (which I imagine is less than 10 seconds), the status page automatically went orange.
Why do people have to learn the same lessons over and over again? What makes them forget or blind to the obvious pitfalls?
I think my $20 openai sub gets me more tokens than claude’s $100. I can’t wait until google or openai overtake them.
-edit- CC is back up on my machine
This is why I stopped paying for Max until they fix this shit.
Us east coasters here are having a chuckle (what else can we do? we can't get work done while Claude is down... I'll be damned if I have to type in code letter by letter ever again!).
It's like.. Popular service is down, let me post that to hn first! Low effort but can still end up popular.
I dunno. Maybe I'm being overly critical. Thoughts?
To add something to the discussion though: this is a reminder why you should not invest in one tool, claude or otherwise. Also, don't go enhancing one of these agents, ond only one of these agents. beads spent the better part of a medium sized country in energy to create a simple TODO list and got smeared in 10 minutes once claude integrated todos in their client.
The second note probably deserves to be a separate comment.
And yes, it probably should have been :)
A thing called API’s exist and if your users rely on it but your not interacting with it directly yourself, seeing this could save you time to investigate an issue.
Or you are using it yourself and seeing this post confirms it is not just you having an issue and you can move on with your day.
This has nothing to do with it being AI and it being a large service. It is the same with posts about an Azure or AWS.
Not sure how "nothing to do with being a large service" and then you bring up Azure and AWS matches though, but fair enough.
Now I know you guys care, so fair game.
So what value does it add saying "X is down" anywhere?
It's just for discussion, you can't just ignore it and not talk about it with anyone if a particular service is down and posts like this are pretty common on hn and i haven't seen anyone complaining, it's you being overly critical, yes